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Among Civilizations, or links to the sites that you believe are simply
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International
Studies

isn.rsuh.ru/icis/index.htm
Institute for contemporary international studies (ICIS), Diplomatic Academy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Russian Federation, The Institute conducts fundamental research in all
fields pertaining international relations; publishes textbooks, monographs
and periodicals; provides academic support to the Russian foreign policy,
organizes multi-national conferences and maintains other forms of
cooperation with research and educational centers.

www.globaleduc.orgGlobal Education Associates (GEA) is a partnership of individuals and
organizations in 90 countries working to enable people to understand and
respond constructively to the crises and opportunities of today's
interdependent world.

iias.leidenuniv.nl/index.html
International Institute for Asian Studies: A post-doctoral institute
aiming to encourage Asian Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences
and to promote national and international scientific co-operation in these
fields.

www.int-idea.se
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA),
Promotion and advancement of sustainable democracy and improvement and
consolidation of electoral processes world-wide.

www.eppc.org/index.htmlThe Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), established in 1976 to
clarify and reinforce the bond between the Judeo-Christian moral tradition
and the public debate over domestic and foreign policy issues.

www.cartercenter.orgThe Carter Center at Emory University. The Center is dedicated to
fighting disease, hunger, poverty, conflict, and oppression through
collaborative initiatives in the areas of democratization and development,
global health, and urban revitalization.

www.odc.orgOverseas Development Council, private international policy research
institute that "seeks to inform and improve the multi-lateral
approaches and institutions dealing with development issues".

jefferson.village.virginia.edu/cecmpe/iiindex.htmlThe Center for Ethics, Capital Markets and Political Economy is a
non-profit organization established in 1994 to provide a discussion forum
and information resource for persons who believe that moral concerns
should be taken into account in economic and political thinking.

www.dse.de/wir-e.htmThe German Foundation for International Development (DSE), Provides a
forum for development policy dialogue and offers initial and advanced
training of specialists and executive personnel from developing and
transitional countries.

www.uia.org/homemeta.htmMetaphors of Governance, explores the role of metaphor and pattern in
relation to governance, understanding of world problems, articulation of
more appropriate organizational strategies, transformative conferencing
and dialogue, and knowledge organization.

www.globalethics.orgThe Institute for Global Ethics is an independent, nonsectarian, and
nonpolitical organization dedicated to elevating public awareness and
promoting the discussion of ethics in a global context.

www.soros.org/osi.html
The Open Society Institute, promotes the development and maintenance of
open societies around the world by supporting an array of programs dealing
with educational, social, and legal reform.

www.newschool.edu/icmecThe International
Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship (ICMEC), based at the New
School University, engages in scholarly research and public policy
analysis bearing on international migration, refugees, and the
incorporation of newcomers.

www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/ecrd/index.htmlThe Ethnic Conflict Research Digestpublishes peer reviews of recently published books, journal
articles and research papers on the dynamics and management of ethnic
conflict.

mailer.fsu.edu/~jflake/MultiCult.htmlMultilingual Multiculture, Contains a very extensive directory of links about
multiculturality organized around 14 different categories from
Afro-American culture to a directory on cultural diversity.

www.pantheon.org/mythica
The encyclopedia of mythology, An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore and legend. It contains more than
4,700 definitions of legendary creatures, supernatural beings and monsters
from all the cultures and peoples of the world.

www.rahul.net/lai/tragsvc.htmlTranslation Agencies and Translation Service Providers, A
directory of agencies and providers of translation and interpretation
services.

www.s9.com/biographyBiographical Dictionary, Includes more than 27,000 notable men and women who have
shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.

www.embpage.org
The Embassy Web turns its spotlight onto web sites maintained by foreign
representations all over the world with over 50,000 addresses, phone
numbers and email addresses of diplomatic posts worldwide.

www.aalbc.com/dialogue.htmDialogue is a bimonthly periodical published by The Alliance for
Cultural Enrichment, Inc. (ACE). Starting January 1999 it will be
published quarterly. Dialogue is designed to be a resource on
African-American literature, art, film, and other cultural issues.

www.usao.edu/%7Efacshaferi/DIALOGUE.HTML
February 1997 the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma hosted a
two-day workshop/colloquium with Professor Leonard Swidler of Temple
University: Dialogue: The Path To
Community

www.dis.no/isgn/publications.html
ISGN Publications: ISGN is a south based network of thinkers and
spokespersons for sustainable, just and people-centred, global development

www.dialogue2001.netPul-i Firuza (Bridge of Turquoise) a
quarterly, independent journal to be published by the Cultural Research
Bureau provides a unique and most effective forum for all who are
interested in the "dialogue of civilizations"

Abrahamic
Faiths, Ethnicuty and Ethnic Conflicts
Paul Peachey, George F. McLean and John Kromkowski, eds., study of
religions…looks to the common Abrahamic roots of the three
"religions of the book": Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Throughout it looks for the complex dialects of unity in diversity, and
diversity in unity, 1997.

Medieval
Western Philosophy: The European EmergencePatrick J. Aspell. This history of medieval
philosophy in Europe begins with a section on Augustine and proceeds
through a number of minor currents important for the gradual emergence of
philosophy from the dark age. It focuses on Bonaventure Aquinas, and
treats the following critical period.

Civil
Society and Social Reconstruction
George F. McLean, ed. A set of interdisciplinary and cross cultural
studies by university professors on the notion of civil society as it is
unfolding in our days. This focuses on philosophy but extend to law,
literature, politics, etc., as well as reflects works by thinkers from
Islamic, Asian, Latin American and Western Scholars, 1997.

Person
and Community:Ghanaian Philosophical Studies, I, Kwasi Wiredu and
Kwame Gyekye, eds. Research by William Abraham, N.K. Dzobo, K. Gyekye and
K. Wiredu on: the theory and epistemology of African identity, the image
of man and community in Ghanaian cultures, and traditional value horizons
and contemporary development, 1992.

The
Foundations of Social Life: Ugandan Philosophical Studies: I
A.T. Dalfovo, ed. Research on the logical and epistemological factors in
the Ugandan heritage for continuity and transformation; their impact on
the metaphysical sense of the person and the processes of village and
urban life. Studies at Makere University, 1992.

Man
and Nature
Tang Yi-jie, Li Zhen, and George F. McLean, eds. Classical, Western and
Marxists components of the Chinese search for social identity; with
hermeneutic considerations for their creative interrelations and for
Eastern and Western approaches to the developing appreciation of the
dignity of the person. To be followed by a volume on society.
Contributors: philosophy faculty of Peking University with Kenneth
Schmitz, Richard T. DeGeorge, Tomonobu Imamichi and others, 1989.

Chinese
Foundations for Moral Education and Character Development
Tran van Doan, Vincent Shen, and George F. McLean, eds. The resources of
Chinese cultural heritage for the moral education of youth, with special
attention to the Confucian horizon. The development of the sense of the
person and ethics in modern thought, and the separation of moral
development from ideology, 1991.

The
Human Person and Society: Chinese Philosophical Studies
Zhu Dasheng, Jin Xiping and George F. McLean, eds. This joint colloquium
with the Philosophy Department of Peking University and the RVP first
surveys the social problems of our day, second treats the approach of the
human sciences to the study of society and family treats issues of social
harmony, 1997

Beyond
Modernization: Chinese Roots for Global Awareness, Chinese Philosophical
Studies
Wang Miaoyang, Yu Xuanmeng and George F. McLean, eds. This studies present
Chinese efforts to get beyond the contrast between tradition and
modernization by looking to the new sense of a global culture whose issues
of metaphysics and affectivity as more hospitable to Chinese culture. This
is the result of a joint colloquium of SASS and the RVP, 1997.

Economic
Ethics and Chinese Culture: Chinese Philosophical Studies
Yu Xuanmeng, Lu Xiaohe, Liu Fangtong, Zhang Rulun and Georges Enderle,
eds. This philosophical study of economic ethics and Chinese culture
reflects a joint colloquium of the Philosophy Department of Fudan
University and SASS with the RVP. It studies the resources of
Confucianism, Marxism and pragmatism for providing a philosophical basis
for an ethics of economic life, 1997.

The
Social Context and Values
Olinto Pegoraro and George F. McLean, eds. The role of society in the
shaping of values, with contributions from sociological and psychological
critical theory and studies of technological, religious and aesthetic
dimensions of life by Latin American scholars, 1989.

Love
as the Foundation of Moral Education and Character Development
Luis Ugalde, Nicolas Barros and George F. McLean, eds. A philosophical
study of the issue of values and education. It pays special attention to
the role of love in the formation and direction of human action. Its
special context is Latin America, particularly Venezuela, but the issue is
central for all people, 1998.

Person
and Nature
George F. McLean and Hugo Meynell, eds., fwd. H.D. Lewis. A progressive
examination of the capabilities and limits of approaching nature in terms
of science, progress, person and transcendence, respectively. Contributors
include John Smith, Eroll Harris, Eliot Deutsch, Masao Abe, as well as
Margaret Chatterjee and a team of Indian philosophers, 1988.

Person
and Society
George F. McLean and Hugo Meynell, eds. The social nature of personal
self-consciousness and the impact of community and its structures on the
ethics and rights of the person. Contributors include Richard McKeon, Ivor
Leclerc, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Mihailo Markovi, and others, 1988.

The
Nature of Metaphysical Knowledge
George F. McLean and Hugo Meynell, eds. Contemporary problematic of the
approaches and methods for metaphysics; their implications for science,
ethics and history, 1988.